MaKshya Tolbert (she/they)
Charlottesville, Virginia
MaKshya Tolbert (she/they) is a Black, queer writer, grower, and cook moved by Black memory and ecological possibility. Her practices consist of making things with food, clay, and people.
She recently completed a Fulbright fellowship in Bra, Italy, commemorating enslaved Black foodways through Black feminist study and practice. Her recent writing has appeared in For The Culture Magazine, Gastronomica: The Journal For Food Studies, and Volume V of the New Farmers Almanac.
Tolbert is a first-year poet in the University of Virginia’s MFA Program in Poetry, and is based on Manahoac land in the Blue Ridge Mountains. In her free time, she is elsewhere, what Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. calls "that physical or metaphorical place that affords the space to breathe."